Canada’s Kepler Communications said it has successfully demonstrated optical data links between a prototype satellite in low ...

Kepler Communications Inc., a pioneer in optical data relay technology, today announced that it has successfully demonstrated ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

In 1972, a Soviet spacecraft bound for Venus failed to escape Earth’s gravity and got stuck orbiting our planet. Now, 50-odd ...

The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace ...

which were first identified by NASA's pioneering Kepler space telescope. Before JWST, attempts to study the atmospheres of sub-Neptune planets using transmission spectra — the measurement of ...

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

Webb is helping scientists understand these gassy exoplanets 'in a way that was not possible prior to the telescope’s launch, ...

the first rocky world ever discovered by the Kepler mission. That’s Kepler-10 b. Another world was also discovered in the system, Kepler-10c, but it has been more complicated to get its ...

An astonishing new claim that we have finally discovered “alien life” has left the space world reeling. The world of astronomy is abuzz with excitement. Have we discovered the first-ever evidence of ...